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Disney’s Once-Unstoppable Franchises Are Showing Signs of Fatigue
The Mandalorian & Grogu at Celebration Stage during Star Wars Celebration Japan Day 1 on April 18, 2025, in Chiba, Japan. Christopher Jue/Getty Images for Disney There’s a scene in director Rian Johnson’s still volcanically polarizing Star Wars: The Last Jedi where protagonist Rey is confronted by her own reflection in a Force-swirling cave on…
Read MoreCan Scientists Help Oysters Thrive Again?
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Dredging and pollution devastated the once-bountiful reefs. Careful science may help bring them back Tim Vernimmen, Knowable Magazine September 24, 2025 A historian inspects oysters from a reef on the Nansemond River, in Virginia. Tess Crowley / The Virginian-Pilot / Tribune News Service via Getty Images The Chesapeake Bay—the largest estuary in the continental United…
Read MoreElon Musk’s Daughter Vivian Wilson Says She’s “Financially Independent” Amid Estrangement
Exa Dark Sideræl Musk & Techno Mechanicus Musk (Kids) In her 2022 Vanity Fair interview, Grimes revealed she and Elon privately welcomed a baby girl via surrogacy. “Exa is a reference to the supercomputing term exaFLOPS (the ability to perform 1 quintillion floating-point operations per second),” she said. “Dark, meanwhile, is the unknown. People fear it but…
Read MoreBrilliant or Blank? ‘Art’ Frames Love-Hate Bromances on Broadway
James Corden, Neil Patrick Harris and Bobby Cannavale star in Art, now on Broadway. Photo by Matthew Murphy Since the inciting event of Yasmina Reza’s Art involves the valuation of cultural objects, let’s start at the price point. Would purchasing a $471 orchestra seat to the Broadway revival make you a shrewd culture vulture or…
Read MoreHow Dancing With the Stars Judge Bruno Tonioli Flubbed Whitney Leavitt’s Score at Premiere
Whitney Leavitt is doing a happy dance after this scoring mistake. The Secret Lives of Mormon Wives star hit the Dancing With the Stars ballroom for the season 34 premiere on Sept. 16, performing the tango with pro partner Mark Ballas to the HUNTR/X song “Golden.” And judges Derek Hough and Bruno Tonioli were quite impressed,…
Read MoreRural Texas EMS leaders discuss ideas to address challenges in rural healthcare access
AUSTIN (Nexstar) — A new $50 billion federal program is giving states the chance to share and develop new strategies to transform rural healthcare across the country. Emergency medical service providers in rural Texas counties have some ideas to help address unique challenges they face everyday. The new program, called the Rural Health Transformation program,…
Read More'No longer a student': Texas State expels student after mocking Charlie Kirk's death
AUSTIN (KXAN) — Texas State University confirmed the individual who appeared to be mocking Charlie Kirk’s death in a video during a memorial on Monday is “no longer a student at TXST.” This action comes after the university acknowledged in a Tuesday statement that it will identify the individual in the “disturbing video that was…
Read MoreJodhpur Arts Week Edition 1.0 Centers Craft in Contemporary Practice
Chila Kumari Singh Burman, Dad’s Ice Cream Van, 2020. Courtesy Chila Kumari Singh Burman Jodhpur Arts Week, which launches its Edition 1.0 next month, is a contemporary art festival as well as an exploration of authorship, memory and place. While the upcoming edition, which runs October 1-7, is ostensibly the first, it builds on last…
Read MoreTeyana Taylor and Aaron Pierre Make Their Red Carpet Debut as a Couple
Why Teyana Taylor Says $70,000 Divorce Payment to Iman Shumpert Was Best Money She “Ever Spent” Teyana Taylor and Aaron Pierre just reached a star-studded relationship milestone. The “Gonna Love Me” singer and the Mufasa: The Lion King actor were quite the striking pair at the London premiere of her new film One Battle After…
Read MoreRobert Redford, Oscar-winning director, actor and indie patriarch, dies at 89
Robert Redford, the Hollywood golden boy who became an Oscar-winning director, liberal activist and godfather for independent cinema under the name of one of his best-loved characters, died Tuesday at 89. Redford died “at his home at Sundance in the mountains of Utah — the place he loved, surrounded by those he loved,” publicist Cindi…
Read MoreAlishan Is Taiwan’s Most Serene Escape—And the Scenic Train Ride Is Just the Start
Alishan. YS/Unsplash The lively night markets, colorful temples and neon-lit streets in Taiwan’s cities are an obvious hit with visitors, but venture beyond the urban sprawl, and you’ll discover remarkable natural landscapes, from tropical beaches to alpine lakes and soaring mountains. For those seeking a peaceful spot to disconnect from the world, away from the…
Read MoreFormer Try Guys Member Ned Fulmer Breaks Silence on “Devastating” Cheating Scandal
Ned Fulmer is speaking out on his infidelity scandal. Three years after The Try Guys—which was comprised of Ned, Keith Habersberger, Zach Kornfeld and Eugene Lee Yang at the time—announced that… Source link
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